Restart the computer. Now you are ready to install updates on PC, just click on Try Again, Apart from above workaround try below workaround if you still face WSUS update issue, Install and ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://0.0.0.1/ Connection to 0.0.0.1 failed. I have spoken with ScriptLogic/Quest on a couple of occasions and they have said on each that the product doesnt affect WSUS or IIS.

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I applied the above fix and rebooted the server. Since the v-root is present, the v-dir is present, the %ProgramFiles%\Update Services\selfupdate folder is present, and the foray into enabling Directory Browsing has confirmed that the v-root is properly mapped to Would be odd if both had got corrupted at same time... I tried to download this CAB file from a browser, which didn't work.

In addition, WSUS has tool to check its functionality: wsusutil checkhealth This tool can only report wrong permissions, but not which permissions are missing.

I then sent my System Information and WindowsUpdate.log file to Microsoft, sorry but I'm not posting their contents here.